After receiving his bachelor’s degree from BUET in 2007, Md. Faysal Kabir worked with architects Kashef Chowdhury and Rashidul Hassan Chhobi. Soon after working with them, he started his own practice in 2007 and has been a partner of FRAMEWORK since January of 2016. Since his early days of high school, Kabir was an active member of socialist student politics. This has greatly shaped his philosophies behind his practice of architecture. Inspired by the wise words of renowned thinker and architect Shamsul Wares, he has sought for the higher dimension of architecture, the poetic expression of needs, and spatial response to climate, time, place, and economy.
Faysal Kabir has participated in numerous design competitions and won several of them, including BRAC’s Sir Fazle Hasan Abed knowledge hub: 1st position, the Institute of Architects Bangladesh (IAB) Centre Design Competition: 3rd prize; Hotel Centrino at Guadalajara, Mexico Design Competition: 3rd prize; Amrul Residence Design Competition: 3rd prize; Public Library & National Museum Design Competition: Commendation; Design of Underground Substation Building at Gulshan; DESCO Head Office Design Competition 1st Prize; IAB Design Award-2018; JK Cement Architect of the year award-2018; and Golpahar Mohashoshan Kali Mondir Complex, 1st Prize.
Kabir’s design for foreign staff accommodation at Meghna Ghat has been exhibited in the prestigious “Bengal Stream; The Vibrant Architecture Scene of Bangladesh (2 December, 2017 - 24 June, 2018) at the SAM Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel, Switzerland (22 November, 2018 - 3 March, 2019), and at Arc en rêve, centre d'architecture, in Bordeaux, France. Kabir’s search for the space of social justice continues through his practice of architecture, be that in the form of an art gallery or a small vacation house in a remote rural area.